Approaches to Metaphysics
Today, when systematic philosophy - and reason itself - are challenged both outside of and within philosophy, is it still possible to do metaphysics? This volume provides a broad perspective on contemporary approaches to the nature and the fundamental que
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STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Volume 26
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
APPROACHES TO METAPHYSICS
Edited by WILLIAM SWEET St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Contents
List of Contributors
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Introduction: Taking Metaphysics Seriously William Sweet
1
PART ONE: ISSUES IN CLASSICAL METAPHYSICS 1. Does Being Have a Nature? (Or: Metaphysics as a Science of the Real) Lawrence Dewan, O.P.
23
2. Logic and Metaphysics in German Philosophy from Melanchthon to Hegel Riccardo Pozzo
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3. Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Pre-Established Harmony Richard Feist
75
PART TWO: MODERN CHALLENGES TO THE SCOPE OF METAPHYSICS 4. The Integration of History and Metaphysics Kenneth Schmitz 5. Suffering, Metaphysics, and Nietzsche’s Path to the Holy Daniel Ahern v
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6. Can ‘Creation’ be a Metaphysical Concept? Peter Harris
127
7. Metaphysics West and East: Bosanquet and Sankara Gautam Satapathy
137
PART THREE: ON THE ROAD TO METAPHYSICS – FREEDOM, AGENCY, AND EXISTENCE 8. Metaphysics and the Origins of Arendt’s Account of Evil and Human Freedom Charles LePage
159
9. Agents, Causes, and Explanations: The Idea of a Metaphysical System Leslie Armour 181 10. Speculative and Analytical Philosophy, Theories of Existence, and the Generalization of the Mathematical Function James Bradley 209
PART FOUR: METAPHYSICAL THEORIES IN A CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT 11. Jacques Maritain and the Metaphysics of Plato Fran O’Rourke
229
12. Metaphysics and Idealism W. J. Mander
249
13. Empiricism: Principles and Problems Fred Wilson
265
PART FIVE: THE POSSIBILITY OF METAPHYSICS 14. Metaphysics as “de Insolubilibus” Martin M. Tweedale
303
15. Designing Metaphysics Elizabeth Trott
317
Index
327
List of Contributors
William Sweet is Professor of Philosophy at St Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia, Canada) and author of Idealism and Rights (1997), Religious Belief: The Contemporary Debate (2003), and Religion, Science, and NonScience (2003). He has edited several collections of scholarly essays, including La philosophie de la religion à la fin du vingtième siècle (1993), Religion, Modernity and Post Modernity (1997), God and Argument (1999), The Bases of Ethics (2000), Idealism, Metaphysics and Community (2001), Philosophy, Culture, and Pluralism (2002) and, most recently, Philosophical Theory and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2003) and The Philoso
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